Where he is concerned, sometimes our need to know factor drives us into a frenzy because we can't solve the mystery of God:
Jesus is God made flesh?
God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are one yet three?
Who made God?
If evolution fits into my need to know schema, couldn't God be in on that?These are questions our intelligence cannot fully explain--or separate from--without blowing a cork. So we take the dangerous step of:
If we can't explain it, it must be wrong--thus easily dismissed or denied.Yesterday we noted that problem-solving for each other is really the solving of mystery. Based on that, explaining the mystery of God would be trying to problem-solve for...God. That sends a wrecking ball to our intellect because it can't be done. Job 11, Ecclesiastes 11:
Do you think you can explain the mystery of God? Do you think you can diagram God Almighty? God is far higher than you can imagine, far deeper than you can comprehend, stretching farther than earth's horizons, far wider than the endless ocean...he sees through vain pretensions, spots evil a long way off--no one pulls the wool over his eyes! Hollow men, hollow women, will wise up about the time mules learn to talk.
Just as you'll never understand the mystery of life forming in a pregnant woman, so you'll never understand the mystery at work in all that God does.If we could harness our need to know factor, we could take heart from David, famous for his heart for God (Psalm 40):
I waited and waited and waited for God. At last he looked; finally he listened...He taught me how to sing the latest God-song, a praise-song to our God. More and more people are seeing this: they enter the mystery, abandoning themselves to God.
No need to be hollow. No need to wait on mules to talk. We don't have to solve the mystery. Our greatest step of intellect is to enter the mystery, abandoning ourselves to not solving the mystery, letting God be on top in the intelligence game.Such a harness on our need to know factor is wisdom for the ages.
God becomes the view--not the problem--and the view is spectacular.
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